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Is it possible to transplant heart from a dead person to a sick person?
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No heart function?
Dead, unless you have a heart transplant XD
Can a dead persons heart be used again?
Once the heart muscle stops beating, it starts to decompose very quickly. A person can be clinically dead, but still have a beating heart. Sometimes hearts are kept beating after death to sae them for transplant surgeries.
How can a person be clinically dead but biologically alive?
a person can be clinically dead when he or she has not shown brain waves for 24 hours and has no reflexes, respiration or heart beat. At such time most of the body is biologically alive and its organs may be used for transplant
Can a heart come back to life?
Not if the cells are dead, but (for about an hour) if the heart is only stopped then it can be restarted. Certainly. In heart transplant operations, the donor heart is effectively "dead" at the moment of transplantation into the recipient. It has to be re-animated with a jolt of electricity.
What causes a person to have a heart transplant?
there original heart is bad.... in most cases its a congenital defect of the heart... but regardless its no heart disease per se cause that can be treated on a vessel to vessel basis usually like with bypass or stents... and valves can also be replaced as needed. so a whole transplant means a lot of the heart is unviable, like dead tissue after a heart attack or very low ejection fraction that can sometimes be caused by infection or drugs.
What happens if part of the heart dies but the person doesn't?
When the heart dies the person is dead.
Can a paralysed or dead person be made to breath artificially?
for a paralysed person, no need of artificial breathing. And for a dead person that is not possible.
First organ successfully transplanted from dead person?
A heart.
What was dead person's heart weighed on?
A scale, versus a feather.
What was the dead person's heart weighed on?
A scale, versus a feather.
Why people declared dead when the brain stops functioning?
Because there's got to be a line somewhere at which point a doctor can say "this person is now dead." It used to be when the heart stopped, but we've since discovered that it's possible to restart the heart if it's done quickly enough.
Which is more important to the function of the human body the brain or the heart?
Both the brain and the heart are important to the function of the human body. If the brain is dead but the heart is still beating, the person is alive. However, if the heart stops, it means the person is dead. Therefore, the heart is more important.
